In the days of waterproofing, Zhuoshao had already measured the size and bought enough tiles.
The Zhou family's house is very large, and it is not suitable to have all wooden floors. It is better to use ceramic tiles in the rest of the room except for the bedroom.
Ten years later, when you go to buy ceramic tiles, the merchants who sell ceramic tiles will give you a special design plan to spell out patterns for your home. At this time in Fuyang County, there is no such thing.
Zhuo Shao found a good ceramic tile brand, and he has seen it all by himself. He has selected seven or eight kinds of ceramic tiles, designed the collage method by himself, and calculated the materials used for each type for people to cut.
First lay the tiles, make the cabinet ceiling after laying the tiles, and then deal with the walls... Zhuo Shao re-planned the process, and then found a few masons to affix the tiles.
There are a lot of decoration workers in Fuyang County, and the local people do decoration, and they are basically paid by the day.
Therefore, the workers here often go to work at 9:00 in the morning, and after 4:00 in the afternoon, the day's work is over, and the work in hand can be delayed as long as possible.
Of course, if there is a lot of work at hand, or if the master is watching closely, they will do it faster.
Zhuo Shao's side is different. After Zhuo Shao contacted those workers, all he said was how much work there was on my side. After you finish all the work, I will give you the amount of money.
No matter if the job is done for ten days or one day, after finishing the job, Zhuo Shao gives the same amount of money.
Because of this, these people did not delay when they came to Zhuo Shao to work here. Some of them knew that Zhuo Shao could work at night, and even worked in other places during the day, and then came here at night.
The masons who lay the tiles come every morning at six or seven o'clock, leave at eight or nine o'clock to work elsewhere, come back at four or five in the evening, and work until six or seven o'clock... After three days like this, They actually did all the work.
It was at this time that Zhuo Shao ushered in the second monthly exam after his rebirth.
"Zhuo Shao, you should read the book again, you... Is there anything you don't understand?" The day before the exam, Liang Chen looked at Zhuo Shao with concern.
In the first few days of the renovation, he could still move bricks for Zhuo Shao, but after that, he couldn't do anything, and he couldn't help Zhuo Shao at all.
In desperation, he could only concentrate on studying hard.
Zhuo Shao is very busy and has very little time to study. There may be things he doesn't understand at that time. If he learns more, he will be able to teach Zhuo Shao when he doesn't understand.
At least, he can also ensure that his homework is correct, so that Zhuo Shao can copy the homework well, right
"It's alright." Zhuo Shao smiled, this monthly exam was a new class that he took in October.
Although he took leave this month, he listened carefully to the lectures in school, and also summed up a set of study methods... Zhuo Shao felt that he still had no problem with this exam.
Of course, if you want to be as good in the exam as he used to be, don't even think about it.
The rules for the monthly exam are still the same as last time.
In the last exam, Zhuo Shao was a little bit blind in the face of Chinese reading comprehension, but this time it is no longer the case.
He still doesn't know what the meaning of a certain sentence in the text is, but he at least knows to write everything that can be written.
First write this sentence well, lively and vivid, and then write at least two kinds of meanings...
Zhuo Shao filled out the entire Chinese paper and breathed a sigh of relief, and then immediately ushered in the math test after a 20-minute break...
Today is going to take an exam. Zhuo Shao, who tried to crawl, didn't cook at noon. Finally, he took his two children and found a fast food restaurant for dinner.
The food in this fast food restaurant is sold one by one.
Put a poached egg on top of the fried vegetables for one dollar, tofu shredded pork soup for one dollar, braised fish for two dollars, and sauce duck for three dollars. In addition, five cents for a large bowl of rice and three cents for a small bowl.
Zhuo Shao ordered a few dishes and ate them with his two children.
This kind of cauldron is cooked in a large pot, and there is no skill in cooking, but they are particularly willing to put MSG and oil, and it tastes no worse than Zhuo Shao's cooking.
Of course, this must not be eaten too much... At first, Zhuo Shao thought about whether he should just buy food and eat it in the future, but now that he has eaten it once, he immediately gave up the idea.
It is better for children to eat less of this kind of food.
In the exam in the afternoon, Zhuo Shao felt that he should have done well in the exam.
After the exam, the students in the class were all correcting the answers, but Zhuo Shao didn't do the same, and hurried back home.
Today, he invited the carpenter he talked about before to come to his house.
"There are wardrobes in these places, a cloakroom here, and here, a whole row of relatively short toy cabinets for children..." Zhuo Shao told the woodworker about the design of each place.
These are all very simple things to do. After he said it, the carpenter understood, and then said, "My wages are forty yuan a day now."
At this time, the wages of people in Fuyang County were generally relatively low, and carpenters could only earn 40 yuan a day because they were skilled workers.
Many people usually give them packs of cigarettes in order to make them work well.
"My wages here are not calculated like this." Zhuo Shao said: "As for the work I just said, I will provide the wood, you help me do it all, I will give you one thousand and two, if you can do it within 20 days If you can do it within 15 days, I will add another 150, and if you can do it in 15 days, I will give you 1500."
"One thousand five?" The woodworker was surprised.
"Yes, one thousand and five." Zhuo Shao said.
"What if I do it in ten days?" asked the carpenter.
"Then I'll give you one thousand seven." Zhuo Shao said: "Of course, the quality can't be bad."
"When will the money be paid?" the carpenter asked again.
The current decoration market is relatively chaotic. Many workers are cheating and cheating, and they use different ways to benefit themselves, but they are usually in trouble.
For example, some people ask them to do the work, but they will not pay for it.
"I'll give you 100 for this cabinet, and 200 for this one..." Zhuo Shao took out the drawing and marked it on it: "The bonus you will get for making it will be given at the end."
Zhuo Shao's behavior is definitely kind, the woodworker nodded and agreed.
And early the next morning, he came with a young man: "This is my nephew, I'll do it with him."
When Zhuo Shao asked how much money he made in ten days yesterday, he knew that he would probably find someone to help him, which was not surprising at all at this moment.
The drawings and dimensions of each cabinet have been given to the woodworker, so there is no need to keep an eye on it. It happened to be the weekend again, so Zhuo Shao went to see the floor and other things.
The decoration is very troublesome. Many people feel that their heads are big when they first contact them, but Zhuo Shao is used to doing this, so everything is arranged in an orderly manner.
Come up on the weekend, the results of the second monthly test will come out. Zhuo Shao placed eighth in the class.
After finding the correct study method, Zhuo Shao's progress is still very fast, and all the time in school is not too small.
Of course, the fact that he was able to get this result was also related to the fact that he only took new courses in the monthly test... Zhuo Shao has not finished all the knowledge in the first and second grades of junior high school.
However, there is still more than half a year before the senior high school entrance examination. Zhuo Shao feels that when he arrives, his grades will not be too bad.
Zhuo Shao's grades improved, while Liang Chen's grades stabilized at the second place.
When Liang Chen did well in the exam last time, everyone thought he was just lucky, but this time he still did well in the exam, and everyone didn't think so.
Many people pay attention to Liang Chenlai, and then find out...
This Liang Chen has really changed a lot!
The Liang Chen in the memory of the classmates is a fat man who doesn't like to talk, is very rustic, and is said to be dirty, but now Liang Chen...
Liang Chen's current clothes were bought for him by Zhuo Shao. Although they didn't look very good, they definitely fit.
Liang Chen's current hair was also taken by Zhuo Shao. Zhuo Shao didn't take him to the place where he often went to get haircuts for the elderly in the county, but found a newly opened barber shop to let him get a haircut. His hairstyle is not so old-fashioned either.
In addition, Liang Chen has lost a bit of weight. Persistent exercise and dietary adjustments have made him no longer oily all day long, and even acne is gone.
Such Liang Chen, although not a handsome guy, is definitely not ugly.
Some students in the class began to take the initiative to talk to Liang Chen, and the problem became clear.
Liang Chen's temper is very good. When others come to him to ask questions, he will answer them well. So, in another PE class, when Zhuo Shao was reading a book by the playground, he suddenly found that Liang Chen, who used to run alone, was beside him. Even with a boy, talking to him.
My child finally has a friend... Zhuo Shao was in a good mood. At this moment, not knowing if he noticed his gaze, Liang Chen raised his head and looked at him.
Facing Zhuo Shao's gaze, Liang Chen also smiled.
Zhuo Shao was suddenly in a trance.
He has been too busy these days, and his attention to Liang Chen has inevitably diminished. Until now, he has not looked at Liang Chen carefully for a long time.
And the way Liang Chen smiled at him just now made him feel a little familiar.
Liang Chen's smile is a bit like Liang Xin.
Liang Xin smiled at him like this once. Although it was only that time, he remembered it clearly.
Liang Chen, a bit like Liang Xin, both of them are still surnamed Liang... Shouldn't they be related
Such an idea suddenly popped into Zhuo Shao's heart.
But he quickly rejected it - Liang Xin has no relatives...
Zhuo Shao smiled and quickly let go of this matter, thinking that he must have missed Liang Xin too much to think that Liang Chen was a bit like Liang Xin.
Liang Xin and Liang Chen are obviously completely different people.
Liang Chen has been a pitiful little boy since he was a child, with an inferiority complex and sensitive personality. He is flattered when others treat him a little bit better, but Liang Xin is different. He has been a child of heaven since he was born, and he is very confident. When others show affection to him, he even feels annoying others.
At that time, several girls in their company liked Liang Xin, and eagerly came to Liang Xin's side, but in the end, it was only Liang Xin's reprimand.
There are also men who like Liang Xin, who is a well-known designer in the industry. At first Liang Xin wanted to dig him, but after learning that he liked him, he never mentioned it again.
That's why Zhuo Shao liked him for several years, but he didn't dare to confess.
Liang Xin is aloof, how can he be worthy of it
Thinking of this, Zhuo Shao felt a little depressed again, and the thoughts in his heart also skyrocketed.
But soon, he suppressed his complicated emotions.
He won't go to jail in his life, he won't waste the best time of ten years in vain, and he has many memories of later generations... He believes that he will definitely achieve something, at least the gap with Liang Xin will not be that big.
Taking a deep breath, Zhuo Shao concentrated on reading the book.
After Liang Chen and Zhuo Shao met eyes, he was very happy, and then looked at Zhuo Shao frequently, but what made him depressed was that Zhuo Shao never saw him since then.
"Liang Chen, why do you always look at Zhuo Shao?" the boy beside Liang Chen asked.
"Is there?" Liang Chen subconsciously denied his behavior.
"Yes!" the boy said, "Liang Chen, Zhuo Shao is so cold, he doesn't even talk to us... But he's also quite pitiful."
Hearing this classmate's evaluation of Zhuo Shao, Liang Chen was a little unhappy.
He doesn't like when others say that Zhuo Shao is pitiful.
"Liang Chen, Zhuo Shao lives with you. You should know the situation at his house, right? Are his parents really dead? What will he do in the future?" The classmate looked at Zhuo Shao sympathetically.
Liang Chen didn't want to talk to this person anymore, so he lowered his head and ran.
The carpenter, with his nephew, worked really hard.
In the past, he always worked very slowly. After a while, he stopped to rest and smoked, but this time, he came to work at 7:00 in the morning and worked until 5:00 in the afternoon, except for meals in the middle. Do not stop.
Then... He suddenly found that his work was done faster than he expected.
But nine days of kung fu, he actually finished all the work!
This carpenter admired himself a little bit.
Zhuo Shao went to see it every noon and night for the past nine days. Knowing that this carpentry work was done very well, he finished it all today, and after watching it again, he was even more satisfied.
Zhuo Shao gave him all the rest of the money, and then saw the woodworker laughing happily, and said: "Little brother, you are really capable! The boards prepared for me are not much at all!"
Zhuo Shao smiled and did not speak. He has been doing design for so many years, of course he can't make a mistake.
"I still have some work here, do you want to do it?" Zhuo Shao asked again.
"There's still work? What work?" asked the carpenter curiously.
"It's going to be a kitchen and a ceiling." Zhuo Shao said, kitchens in later generations are all made of integral cabinets, but at this time... He walked around Fuyang County and found that there was no store that made integral cabinets, so he could only Made it myself.
Other than that, it's the ceiling.
For families who want to save on renovation costs, it is not necessary to install complex ceilings. It's enough to cover the wires and pipes, and it can make the house look taller, but for families who are not poor...
The ceiling is definitely one of the things that best shows the class of a house.
Of course, when suspending the ceiling, it is also necessary to pay attention not to hang too much, once the ceiling is too low, it will appear depressing.
Zhuo Shao didn't talk to the woodworker about the ceiling at first. He planned to see how his work was going. Now that he was sure that he was doing well, he began to discuss the ceiling with him.
The ceiling is more complicated than the wardrobe, the price of Zhuo Shaokai is relatively high, and the kitchen...
"Isn't the kitchen all made by masons? Our carpenters only need to make cabinet doors." The carpenter was a little puzzled.
At this time, the kitchen is generally built with bricks several walls, and then pasted with tiles, and finally covered with marble, and the outside is equipped with woodworking cabinet doors.
"What I do here is different." Zhuo Shaodao, he specially designed the kitchen cabinets, this kitchen, he intends to make it a little more high-end and elegant.
Zhuo Shao's work here is indeed different... The woodworker nodded in agreement, and was a little excited at the same time.
He has learned a lot here, and he will be able to do better when he goes out to do carpentry for others in the future.
If nothing else, he thought the design of those wardrobes was great.
For the ceiling of the living room, Zhuo Shao made it into the atmosphere. Each room has a different ceiling. For example, in the children's room, he made a huge moon ceiling.
The next day, the carpenter started to make the ceiling, and after a few days, on Saturday, Zhuo Shao contacted Zhou Zhengqiang and asked him to come and have a look.
Zhou Zhengqiang is also very busy, and he trusts Zhuo Shao, he has not been here for some days, and now he will come again... He was surprised by the progress of the renovation.
The speed of this renovation is really fast. There was not a single cabinet a few days ago, and now the cabinets are all installed.
Not only that, but many details are also handled very delicately. It is said that the tiles are covered with a layer of things, which are all protected.
"Mr. Zhou, half of the hard work has been completed. According to the contract, another 45% must be paid." Zhuo Shao smiled. He asked Zhou Zhengqiang to come over to ask for money.
After a few days of hard work, you will have to pay such a large sum of money again. If you are an ordinary person, you will definitely be reluctant.
But Zhou Zhengqiang is a local tyrant!
He took Zhuo Shao to the bank, and then gave Zhuo Shao a stack of money.
Zhuo Shao went home with the money in his arms, feeling contented. At the same time, a thought suddenly appeared in his heart.
After the thought came out, it seemed like it had grown in his mind and could never be removed.
Zhuo Shao was silent for a while, then called Yang Jianhua and asked for a two-day leave. By the way, he also asked for leave for Liang Chen and Zhuo Ting.
He plans to go to the provincial capital tomorrow to see all kinds of building materials, buy some electrical appliances, and see another person.
As for why he took two children... Zhuo Shao was worried that they would get into trouble when he was not at home, so he took them with him.
The last time I went back to the provincial capital to buy a computer, I was in a hurry to go there, and it was even more urgent to come back. Liang Chen and Zhuo Ting didn't feel like going to the provincial capital to play at all, but this time it was different. They will stay in the provincial capital for two days!
Liang Chen was very excited, and Zhuo Ting was also very excited.
Zhuo Shao thought more.
For example, if they go to the provincial capital, if they want to stay in a hotel, they need to bring a household registration book or something.
Zhuo Shao has his own and Zhuo Ting's household registration book in his hand, and Liang Chen's household registration book is also in his hand. He took it out and looked at it, and suddenly found that Liang Chen's birthday was coming.
Liang Chen's birthday is December 8th.
Liang Xin was born on December 4th, four days younger than Liang Xin.
Zhuo Shao held Liang Chen's household registration book and recited the name "Liang Xin" in his heart, the more he read, the more satisfied he became.
After a while, Zhuo Shao came back to his senses. He kept Liang Chen's birthday diary in his heart, and then he took his two children to the provincial capital early the next morning.
At this time, there was no navigation map or anything, and there were not as many buses and taxis as ten years later. Zhuo Shao could not arrange the hotel route in advance, so he had to go to the provincial capital first.
They first went to the center of H City to see various home appliances. Zhuo Shao wrote down the price and measured the size, and then took Liang Chen and Zhuo Ting to eat KFC.
There is no KFC in Fuyang County, but it is in the provincial capital.
Liang Chen is not short of money, but he has never seen anything in the world. After Zhuo Shao took him into the bright and clean KFC, he kept looking around, and of course Zhuo Ting did the same.
"You guys wait here, I'll go buy food." Zhuo Shao said.
Liang Chen and Zhuo Ting nodded and watched Zhuo Shao go to buy food, while taking a deep breath of the rich aroma that permeated the store.
"Zhuo Shao is really amazing, he understands everything." Liang Chen said to Zhuo Ting.
Zhuo Ting nodded with a proud look, and then saw a girl about the same age as Zhuo Ting who was lined up in front of Zhuo Shao, took out a piece of one hundred yuan, and skillfully bought what she wanted to buy. .
Zhuo Ting was a little dumbfounded when she saw this scene.
Liang Chen also looked a little stunned.
It seems that it's not that Zhuo Shao is too powerful, but that they are too useless.
Zhuo Shao didn't buy much. He brought two children here, just to let them taste, but he didn't plan to let them eat too much junk food.
"Brother, it's delicious!" Zhuo Ting ate a few bites of the hamburger and couldn't help but said, "I've never eaten something so delicious!"
Zhuo Shao smiled: "I'm eating just fine." These... He really didn't like it, he thought it was too greasy.
Zhuo Ting was a little unhappy, and went to see Liang Chen again: "Brother Liang Chen, do you think this burger is particularly delicious? Nothing we have eaten before is as delicious as this!"
Zhuo Shao was very busy during this time, and Liang Chen and Zhuo Ting spent a lot of time together. The two of them had already become acquainted with each other quickly.
Although Zhuo Ting was young, Liang Chen agreed with what Zhuo Ting said in the past, but today is different.
Liang Chen shook his head: "I also feel normal."
The burgers are delicious, very, very delicious, but he thinks Zhuo Shao cooks better food.
"It's so good, I don't eat this kind of thing in the future." Zhuo Shao said to Liang Chen.
Liang Chen quite likes eating hamburgers, but Zhuo Shao said so, he still nodded.
Eat less... just eat less... Anyway, it's not that you can't eat.
Zhuo Shao said that the burger was not delicious. Zhuo Ting was a little unhappy at first, but thinking about the price of this burger, she stopped talking.
After eating KFC, it was only one o'clock in the afternoon, but Zhuo Shao did not continue shopping with his two children.
"Let's go." Zhuo Shao said, "Let's find a place to live."
There are many hotels in the city center, but Zhuoshao did not choose to live here.
He found a taxi, and finally gave an address and asked, "Master driver, is there a hotel over there?"
"Yes, there is a hotel over there." The driver said.
"Master, you can take us to the hotel next door." Zhuo Shao said.
"Okay, no problem! By the way, what are you doing there?" The driver was a little curious.
"I have a friend studying there." Zhuo Shao laughed.
The address reported by Zhuo Shao is H City Foreign Language School.
And this school is the school that Liang Xin attended.
He wanted to go to the school and have a look. If he was lucky, maybe he could meet Liang Xin
Thinking of this, Zhuo Shao's heart beat violently.
I don't know what Liang Xin looks like now... He should be like a little prince, right
"So it is." The driver smiled, but Liang Chen looked at Zhuo Shao curiously.
Zhuo Shao... Have a friend studying in H City
Liang Chen wanted to ask Zhuo Shao who his friend was, but he happened to see Zhuo Shao looking out the window with a happy smile on the corner of his mouth.
The former Zhuo Shao didn't like to laugh, but the recent Zhuo Shao often laughs. But even so, Liang Chen had never seen Zhuo Shao smile so nicely, the corners of his eyes and brows were all warm.
Zhuo Shao smiled very nicely, Liang Chen was a little stunned, and noticed some changes in Zhuo Shao.
Zhuo Shao has been very busy these days, and he has been running outside on weekends. Not only has he lost a little weight, but he has also gotten a little darker.
But even so, his spirit is very good, and his eyes are very, very bright.
Now, there was something more in those eyes, which made Liang Chen's heart skip a beat.
"Why are you staring at me all the time?" Zhuo Shao looked at Liang Chen with a smile.
"Zhuo Shao, who is your friend?" Liang Chen couldn't help but ask, he didn't know what was wrong, he was a little unhappy when he heard Zhuo Shao talking about his friend.
"It's a pen pal who wrote several letters before." Zhuo Shao said nonsense.
At this time, it was very popular for people to make pen pals. After he published his composition in a composition magazine in the first year of junior high school, he received several letters from others, all of whom wanted to make pen pals with him. He also wrote a few times with one of them. letter.
Of course, after something happened at home, he never wrote to anyone again.
"Is that so..." Liang Chen was a little disappointed.
The letters in the school were all distributed to them after the monitor went to the reception room to get them. He also saw Zhuo Shao receiving letters from others, and secretly wrote an unsigned letter to Zhuo Shao, saying that he liked it very much. I like Zhuo Shao very much.
He didn't even write a signature, and of course Zhuo Shao didn't reply, but it turns out that Zhuo Shao has a pen pal who cares a lot
The hotel next to the foreign language school is quite upscale, so it costs 150 yuan to stay a night.
Although Zhuo Shao already had some money in his hand, he was reluctant to spend it indiscriminately. Instead of two rooms, he took the account book and asked for a standard room.
He and Liang Chen were both relatively young, and the people at the hotel were a little reluctant to let them stay at first, but Zhuo Shao said that the parents would come over tomorrow, and after a while, the hotel still let them stay.
After entering the hotel room and putting down his luggage, Zhuo Shao wanted to take a shower, checked the time, but gave up.
The foreign language school is a dormitory. This Sunday is the day when the students return to school. Most of the students will come to school after dinner.
It is three o'clock in the afternoon, and there may be students who arrive at school early.
He wanted to go to the school gate and wait to see if he could wait for Liang Xin.